On the same day, Jiang Haoran and his entourage returned to Chittagong by seaplane.

In addition to Chen Shaokuan, Gui Yongqing and other generals, there were also Stilwell and Alexander.

This summit is unusual, and they are indispensable to enter the preliminary preparations, of course, mainly to make security preparations, after all, with their own security personnel, these heads of state can rest assured.

Because the situation in Africa was so bad and so serious that it almost diluted their joy at the victory in the Malay Peninsula.

Without too many pleasantries, the group quickly entered the headquarters.

Stilwell and General Alexander were very anxious, and as soon as they entered the door, they almost entered the office with Jiang Haoran between the left and right, and when the door was closed, Stilwell shouted: "Son, tell me the truth, did you already plan that the Germans would attack El Alamein?" ”

In fact, this matter can't be hidden, Jiang Haoran gave Molotov a clever plan and clearly told him that it must be opened when there is a major event in Africa, which is easily reminiscent of alluding to the disaster of El Alamein, so Jiang Haoran also said calmly: "Yes, with my understanding of Hitler, he will not miss this opportunity, and I also solemnly reminded the British Ambassador Aiden about this matter, why, didn't he report it?" ”

Jiang Haoran and Stilwell's eyes looked at Alexander almost at the same time, since they have already been reminded, why did you British go before this?

Alexander shook his head in embarrassment, signaling that the British top brass did not know about this, and then said, "But...... General Chiang, do you know that Ambassador Aiden is only a civilian official after all, and should you unilaterally alert the Allied Command or directly to General Montgomery about such a major military incident? ”

"Huh...... I thought about it, but your ambassador Aiden replied to me in one breath that your General Montgomery had already made a precise deployment, and what else could I say, wouldn't it be self-deprecating to solemnly announce it? ”

Alexander was directly speechless, if this matter is true, the responsibility is not on Jiang Hao However, in Aiden, the authorities want to know about these situations before the summit, of course, they also do not want to destroy the harmony of the meeting, this matter can only be left at that, as for how the authorities will hold Ambassador Aiden responsible, it is no longer a matter for them to worry about.

After a moment of silence, Stilwell said: "Okay, let's not talk about this for the time being, I'm very strange, how can you calculate that the Soviet army will succeed in attacking the Western Front at this time?" ”

Jiang Haoran said: "This is actually very simple, with the current logistics strength of the German army, he can no longer take care of the two battlefields at the same time, once they have a move in Africa, the Soviet side will inevitably be on the defensive." I have carefully studied the encirclement of the German army, almost all of it is the Italian army on the Western Front, and the combat effectiveness of the Italian army you should also know, it is notoriously poor, their biggest ability is to pit their teammates, the Soviet army actually knows it, but they don't dare to risk it, I designed a very convincing offensive plan for them......"

Jiang Haoran talked endlessly, in fact, it didn't matter what the plan was, Stilwell and Alexander already had a smile full of reverie on their faces.

During World War II, the Allies had a very classic name for the Italian army - the Italians on our side described the Italian army as a "pig teammate" vividly.

As early as the signing of the Steel Treaty between Germany and Italy, there were voices in the Wehrmacht against an alliance with Italy. The Wehrmacht had a clear idea of the level of Italian combat effectiveness, and when Hitler asked about the pros and cons of the treaty, they warned their Führer: "If Italy remains neutral, it will be equivalent to an increase of 10 divisions in our army; If Italy joins the other side, we will be able to handle it with 20 divisions; But if Italy were to join us, our army would have to expend 50 divisions to protect it. ”

The subsequent development of the war proved the foresight of the German generals, but they clearly underestimated the ability of the Italians to hold back, and the Italian contained more than 50 divisions in the Second World War.

In 1940, in the war against France, Italy first refused to participate in the war on the grounds of "not ready for war", and when Germany was about to capture Paris, Mussolini, who wanted to take advantage of the opportunity, hurriedly launched an attack on France, with the result that his carefully assembled attack force was defeated by the French army, which had given up hope, and finally burned the war to Italy.

If this is not strange, look at the Battle of El Alamein, the Italian army once set a rare record in the history of human warfare, and surrendered to the other side in an army formation.

At that time, Churchill called the commander of the British army, Auchinleck, and Churchill asked: "How many Italians have we captured?" Auchinleck replied triumphantly, "I can't count, about 5 acres of land for officers, 200 acres of land for soldiers." ”

Moreover, because there were too many prisoners of war, the British, who were eager to pursue and retreat the German army, had no time to build a prisoner of war camp, so they had to ask the quartermaster to send materials to the Italian prisoners of war and let them build a prisoner of war camp to lock themselves up.

These are just two typical examples, this kind of joke is still endless in the Italian army, and it is necessary to deal with a group of such troops with Jiang Haoran's tactical thinking, Stilwell and Alexander can imagine the outcome of the war.

But what they didn't know was that Jiang Haoran gave the Soviet army more than just a frontal offensive strategy, but said that he gave the Soviet army the tactical essence of guerrilla warfare and movement warfare of the Yan'an troops, plus his own summary, and gave it all to the Soviet army.

At the same time as the attack, the Soviet army did everything possible to mobilize countless small units in front of and behind the enemy, and began to move in the enemy's defense line or rear, mainly harassing and sabotage, which for a time actually made the German army unprepared for a time, which was also an indispensable factor in the defeat of the Italian army.

On 8 September, President Roosevelt and Army Chief of Staff Marshall, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Commander-in-Chief Stalin arrived at Chittagong one by one.

Also arriving at the same time were General Eisenhower, Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces, General Nimitz of the United States, General Montgomery of the United Kingdom, and General Zhukov of the Soviet Union.

With the arrival of so many battlefield commanders from various countries, it can be seen that this is no longer a purely political meeting, but also a strategic meeting.

In addition to Jiang Haoran, there are also Chen Chen and Bai Chongxi who participated in the meeting on the Chinese side, Jiang Haoran solemnly asked Li Zongjian to participate, after all, he is still the president in the above form, but Li Zongjian made it clear that Jiang Haoran is in charge of this kind of thing, and he will not participate, which can also be seen that Li Zongjian's determination to retreat to the second line is quite resolute, not just talking.